DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN VICTORIOUS. This chapter is from Beck's POV.
Chapter 1
"I can't take it!"
Five minutes after learning that we were trapped.
"I can't take it! I can't take it! I can't fucking take it!" Jade shouted, flipping out. She needs to calm down. I know she scared, fuck I'm scared too, but freaking out won't help us at all.
"Babe, please calm down and catch your breath." I tell her.
"Does anyone got cell reception?" Robbie wonders. We all pull out our phones and I see no bars. No reception at all. A cell tower must've been knocked over by flying cars. Everyone says they have no bars.
"Do you have a radio?" Andre asks Tori whose eyes widen and a smile appears on her face.
"You bet we do, Andre, let me go get it!" she says cheerfully before running upstairs. I hope the radio works. Cause, it looks like we'll be here for quite some time, and we'll need to be updated on the latest. I hope my parents are ok. I think my RV got trashed and tossed around by the storm. R.I.P. Silver Streak.
Tori comes back from upstairs, carrying a radio that seems to be battery powered. She sets it up on the piano and turns it on. A faint buzzing can be heard from it. Tori claps her hands excitedly and turns the volume up so the buzzing fills the house. Tori sits on the piano bench and starts tuning it. The entire house is staring at Tori intently awaiting for a voice to come out of the box. Eventually she stops and a woman's voice comes out of the radio.
"Citizens are told to stay indoors at all times until the storm blows over and take shelter if they have any until further notice." the woman said. The reception was better than I expected which is a good thing.
"Reports are coming in about severe flooding, rain storms, and major damage to all of Los Angeles." the woman continued.
"Holy shit, this is bad." Andre stated.
"Agreed." Robbie replied. I looked over at Jade who has been silent for several minutes. I walked over to her and as soon as I was within arm's length, she suddenly wrapped her porcelain arms around me and squeezed tightly, knocking the wind outta me. I wrapped an arm around her and pulled her in closer. Poor thing was uneasy with all this. I'll make her feel better, I always have and I always will.
"I'm scared, Beck." she whispered to me.
"I know; I'm scared too, baby." I said in a reassuring voice. I kissed the top of her head.
"We have got to do something; we can't just stay here with our thumbs up our asses." Rex stated.
"But what do we do? We're trapped in Tori's house." Cat whimpered.
"I don't know." Tori replied.
"How about a window?" I suggest. "There has to be one big enough for us to fit in."
"But the woman on the radio said we have to stay inside." Robbie pointed out.
"Who gives a fuck what the bitch said! We need to get outta here!" Jade shouted letting go of me and runs upstairs with Tori, Andre, and I following her.
Jade kicks open a door that leads to a bathroom and walks in with the three of us in the hallway. She pulls back the shower curtains and walks in and reaches up to the window and pries it open.
"Someone give me a boost." Jade commanded. By "someone" she means me. So I walk up to her, grab her waist, and lift her high enough for her to poke her head out.
"What do you see?" I ask her after a few moments.
"Uh, a lotta vehicles and water and the neighborhood is in ruins; I'm surprised anything is standing. Pull me back." she replies and I pull her out and put her down, my arms aching from holding her.
"Bedroom windows?" Andre asks Tori.
"Not very big, but let's try." Tori replies moving down the hall to her room, I'm assuming and she goes inside and goes to the window with Andre and they open the curtains and both gasp at the sight of a vehicle propped gingerly against the house, blocking the window. You've gotta be shitting me.
"Oh no; let's see the others." Tori says running outside and going to the other bedroom next door, which I guess is Trina's, who I'm thankful is not here. Tori goes inside and pulls the curtains and the window is blocked by a pole of some sort.
"I think that's a transformer." Tori states. That makes since, we lost power several minutes ago, and if that's the transformer, well, that explains a lot.
Tori runs out and goes to the end of the hall and enters the final room, which is a large master bedroom, that happens to have a soggy floor that is covered in shards of glass. THe curtains are bulged at the middle like something is pushed against them and they are billowing slightly from the wind.
"Not a good sign." I remark. Tori goes to the window and pulls the curtains and shows the cause of the bulge, another car blocking the fucking window.
"You've gotta be shitting me." Andre states.
"Ugh, now what do we do?" Jade asks no one in particular. I shake my head slowly.
"I don't know, babe." I reply. We walk out of the master bedroom defeated and headed back downstairs. Cat and Robbie are sitting together at the piano bench, listening to the radio. I notice how close they are. Robbie will take care of her, he has always been there for her, even if she doesn't want him to be.
"What's up?" Cat asks, without turning from the radio.
"Windows are blocked by debris." Tori replies. Cat squeals a little and clutches Robbie and her purple giraffe tightly afraid to let go.
"Anything new?" Jade asks.
"Storm's heading north; SoCal is in ruins. L.A. seems to have taken the brunt of the hurricane." Robbie informs us, turning the radio up for us to hear. A man's voice is explaining the situation.
"Hurricane Rick has all but wiped out Los Angeles and is now currently in the northern areas of SoCal. The power plant is currently having issues maintaining power." the man explains. Shortly after finishing, the radio starts buzzing, signaling the loss of signal, most likely from the power going out altogether.
Robbie starts fiddling with the tuners and changes channels, recieving nothing but buzzing.
"Power must have gone out." Robbie tells us sadly, earning him another crushing squeeze from Cat, causing him to gasp for breath. "C-Cat, loo-loosen up a bit!"
"Sorry." Cat whines before loosening her grip on Robbie. Robbie turned the radio off.
Everyone gathered in the living room and sat down somewhere. Tori and Andre sat together on one of the red couches; Cat and Robbie sat together next to them; Jade and I took the other couch for ourselves.
"How long do you think we'll be here?" Cat wondered. Good question and I wish I had a good answer.
"Awhile." I reply. My response is vague, but awhile could be anywhere from a few hours to several days and possibly even longer. I hope it's not gonna come to that; we only have so much food. Which gives me an idea.
"We need to ration all the food in the house." I state.
"That's a good idea; let's get started." Tori responded jumping up from her seat and walked into the kitchen and started opening cabinets that held food in them. Andre, Jade, and I followed and started grabbing food out of the cabinets and placing them on the tables and countertops.
"The food in the fridge will have to be eaten first before they spoil; I'm not sure what to do with all the frozen foods, since we have no power." Tori stated as she motioned to the fridge.
"We could start a fire and do it the old fashioned way." Jade suggested innocently.
"That's really dangerous, Jade." Tori replied with a worried expression.
"Yeah, how are we gonna make a fire in here that's large enough to cook meat, but small enough that it's manageable?" Andre pointed out.
"Whatever; it was just a suggestion." Jade said nonchalantly.
"Wait a minute, we have no power in the entire house, right?" Robbie said out of the blue. I look at the other's and they are confused as I am by this.
"Yeah, what about it?" I ask him.
"Well, with no power, we won't be able to charge our phones and we might need them if we're gonna be here for awhile." Robbie pointed out. Shit, didn't think of that one. Good thinking Rob.
"Yeah, let's turn them off." Tori replied, reaching in her pocket and pulling out her phone and turning it off. Everyone soon follows suit and all our phones are off. We have no signal and no internet, so why kill the batteries?
Now that all of the foodstuffs are out of the kitchen cabinets we can start to ration them. If we ration them correctly, we should, hopefully, have enough food to last us the rest of the month, which is three weeks away. Unfortunately, we'll have to keep our appetites under check and have to fight the urge to eat.
"Do we have water?" Andre asks Tori. Tori shrugs and moves to the sink and turns the faucet on full blast and water does come out.
"Phew, at least we have water." Tori says relieved. Robbie and Cat soon join us in the kitchen to help with the rationing. Cat seems to have calmed down as she doesn't have her purple giraffe with her.
"Do you know what we have for food in the fridge?" Robbie asked. Tori's eyes wandered to the ceiling as she struggled to remember what food is in the fridge.
"Not really and I don't want to open it; we need to keep it cool for now." Tori replies. "We should only open it only when it's absolutely necessary." she added.
"It is absolutely necessary, Vega." Jade snapped and walked to the fridge and opened the door before anybody could object. We all walked to stand beside her. I stood behind her and look past her shoulder inside the dark fridge. It was hard to make out the containers of food inside. From what I can tell, there's dairy, condiments, sandwich ingredients, whole wheat bread, and a containers full of leftovers of foods I can't tell. Jade then shuts the door to trap the escaping cool air.
"Not much, but it's better than nothing." I state. Everyone nods.
"Agreed; at least we have some idea wht's in there." Jade replied.
Tori left the kitchen and headed for the stairs.
"Where are you going?" Andre asked.
"Getting a notebook and a pen." Tori replied without looking back. She ascended the stairs and vanished.
"Why would she need a notebook and a pen?" Cat asked quietly. We all shrugged. Tori usually has something up her sleeve, so let's she what card she plays.
Tori returns after a couple of minutes witha blue notebook and a pen.
"We'll make a journal entry of our stay here." Tori states at our confused looks.
"Why? That seems unnecessary." Jade replied, her confused look contorting to an even more confused look.
"Well, we need it in case we..." Tori started. She looked at us all expectantly. I understood and nodded my head. Jade and Andre nodded as well. Robbie and Cat didn't reply nor nod, possibly not understanding what Tori means.
"I don't get it." Cat says.
"We'll need it in case we don't make it, Cat." Andre told her. Cat gasped and grabbed Robbie again, who now had a terrified look on his face.
"Yeah; we'll each take turns writing a day out?" Tori suggested as she sat down on one of the couches and pulled the coffee table closer to her and put the notebook down and opened it to the first page after the cover. Tori looked back at us and we all nod.
"Ok, then I'll start." Tori said shakily. She doesn't find this easy and I don't find it easy either. Jade wraps her arms around me again and pulls me close to her. I wrap my arms around her and pull her in closer. Tori starts writing on the first page. Andre, Cat, and Robbie went into the living room to see what Tori was writing. Only Jade and I remained in the kitchen, wrapped together like a giant piece of candy.
"I want out, Beck." Jade whispers to me. I kiss the top of her head and rubbed her back reassuringly.
"I want out too, Jade." I tell her. I don't care what happens, I want Jade to survive all this. I want her to live a long and happy life. I want to be a part of that life too, no matter the cost. Our love for each other will be tested like never before. I love her so much. I pull back a bit and lift Jade's head with a finger under her chin and lean in to kiss her. She kisses back and runs her hair through my thick and fluffy hair. We break up after a few moments and lean in close to each other.
"What are we gonna do about sleeping arrangments?" Andre asked without looking up from the notebook Tori was still writing in.
"Beck and I will take the master bedroom after we clean the glass off the floor." Jade replied automatically. She lets go of me and grabs my hand and drags me upstairs before anyone could reply.
We enter the master bedroom and I instinctly flip the switch to turn on the lights, when I remembered that there was no power. The master bedroom was around the size of the living room. The window was on the right side and the bed was against the wall opposite the door. The floor in front of the window is covered in glass and soaked from the rain.
"Let's find something to pick up the glass." Jade states. I nod and looked around for a waste basket to put the glass in. The trouble was that it was gray outside and hard to see in the dim light and there was no power. I looked for a flashlight and found one on the nightstand on the left side of the bed. I move towards it and grab it and turn it on, flashing it towards the floor in front of the window. The glass shards glistened in the narrow beam of light from the flashlight. Thankfully, there's not too much, but I don't know how many tiny shards there are that are hard to see. At least its not too close to the bed, so itll be easy to navigate around there once the larger shards are removed.
"Here." Jade said, handing me some toilet paper that came from the adjacent master bathroom. I took the roll and unrolled a large amount of it and started wrapping it around my hand to protect it from the broken glass. A few layers should protect my hand. When I finish, I tear the toliet paper and hand the roll to Jade who does the same. I take a waste basket next to the bed and move towards the glass shards with the flashlight. The flashlight is small enough for me to put the end in my mouth. I try to keep my tongue away from it as it would not taste very appealing. I kneel on the floor and with the shine of the flashlight, I start to pick up the shards and put them in the waste basket next to me. Jade soon joins me and kneels across me and helps with the cleaning.
Eventually, all the glass shards that we can see are gone. The floor is a beige carpet, so it is hard to see small pieces of glass. Hell, I bet even in the light of the ceiling fan, it'll be hard to see them.
"Ok, I think we got them all." I state standing up.
"Want me to call Robbie up here and have him walk barefooted around here?" Jade asks, trying to sound innocent. It doesn't work on me.
"No and why would you want Robbie to do that?" I ask her.
"Cause he likes broken glass. Remember that stupid song that he tried to get us to play for those sticky three year olds?" Jade reminds me.
"Four year olds and yes I do."
"Whatever. Let's go check on the others." Jade says before leaving the room. I noda nd follow her back downstairs.
"Hey you guys." Tori greets us as we enter the living room.
"Tori finished with the day log." Robbie explained to us.
"What did she write?" I ask. Tori takes the notenook and hands it to me. I take it and hold it so Jade and I can read it together. There were many crossed out words.
Day One June 12th, 2011:
Hurricane Rick has hit Los Angeles and the city is all but destroyed. The roads are most likely blocked and the power is out. SolCal took the brunt of the storm. I am writing this daily journal so that should anyone find us too late, they'll know what has transpired here.
My name is Victoria Vega. I'm a student at Hollywood Arts high school and this is my house we are trapped in. My friends are as follows: Andre Harris, the boy with dreadlocks; Robbie Shapiro, the boy with the afro and the glasses and his puppet, Rex; Caterina Valentine, the little redhead with the purple giraffe; Beckett Oliver, the boy with the long hair; and Jadelyn West, Beck's girlfriend, with the highlights and twenty pairs of scissors.
We are trapped in my house and all entrances and exits are blocked by debris and vehicles. We have managed to ration what food we have in the house and we have a source of water. The food supply should hopefully last us until the end of the month.
The radio told us what has happened but we lost the signal due to the storm, leaving us cut off from the outside world. We have no signal on our cell phones, which we have turned off to conserve the batteries.
End of log.
"Where did you get the idea that I'm your friend, Vega?" Jade asked as soon as we finished reading the log. "And I do not have twenty pairs of scissors! I have fifty-nine!" she adds, and I can't help but grin at that. My Jade and her scissors.
"I'm trying to be nice to you, Jade!" Tori defends.
"Why?!"
"We may die here! Do you want to die alone with me and feel nothing but hate for me?" Tori asks. Jade contemplates this for a moment.
"Yeah." she replies. Tori rolls her eyes in defeat.
"But, Jadey, why can't you and Tori get along?" Cat asked desperately.
"Don't call me that! And I don't want to get along with Tori because she's fucking annoying!" Jade replied. Cat covered her ears. For some reason she hates swearing. Whatever.
"It's a good start, Tori." I comment on the journal to change the subject.
"Thank you, Beck." Tori replies with a smile. Jade rolls her eyes in annoyance. Seriously, Tori's gotta stop smiling at me as long as Jade is here. And since we're trapped here, she better stop quick if she wants to survive this.
This will be a long stay.
Chapter 1. I wanted to finish Love Darkness before starting Dark of the Storm, but I had a bee in my bonnet and well, I started of with a cliffhanging prologue. I hope you guys will enjoy this one. The first six chapters are from the POV of each of the gang, to get a feel of how they're all taking the news of being trapped. The chapters after that will be interchanging.